Becoming A Parent

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →